Time is the explicable raw material of everything.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.